4 PERFECT Wines – Will I find my 100-Point-Wine?

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100 Parker Point Perfection: Tasting FOUR 100 Point Wines.

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I have tasted the following wines in this Video:

2020 Domane Serrig Vogelsang Grosse Lage, Saar, Germany
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/dom+serrig+vogelsang+gross+lage+saar+mosel+germany/2020?referring_site=KSB

2010 E. Guigal Ermitage Ex-Voto Blanc, Rhone, France
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/e+guigal+ermitage+voto+blanc+hermitage+rhone+france/2010?referring_site=KSB

2016 Torbreck Runrig Shiraz – Viognier, Barossa Valley, Australia
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/torbreck+run+rig+sra+viognier+barossa+valley+south+australia/2016?referring_site=KSB

2004 R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva, Rioja DOCa, Spain
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/r+lopez+de+heredia+vina+tondonia+grand+rsrv+doca+rioja+alta+spain/2004?referring_site=KSB

The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.

When Robert Parker developed his point scale the 100 Point Score was only reserved for a few wines. Wines that were better than extraordinary – wines that represented perfection.
During the heyday of Robert Parker’s influence, a 100-point score could either bring an unknown producer into the spotlight or raise demand for a well-known wine into the stratosphere.
I read this nice little story by MARK SQUIRES from the beginning of the Parker Erea that highlighted his influence. He wrote: One day in the 1980s I called CALIFORNIAN WINERY Groth to inquire about their 1985 Groth Reserve. It was about 5:30 p.m. EST, and I got very lucky as Dennis Groth himself answered the phone. I said that I really had liked the 1984 Reserve and I had vowed to get some of the ’85 when released, and I was wondering when it would be. The somewhat exasperated reply was that it had been just released and was already sold out. Huh? He said, “You haven’t heard?” I wondered what it was I was supposed to have heard. Evidently, some guy named Robert Parker had just given it the first 100-point score ever for a California wine. It vanished in an eyeblink, leaving Groth besieged with eager collectors.

When I checked today on robertparker.com the wine is rated 98 points – apparently having been downgraded by a few points. When I worked with fine wine in London, I remember well how prices for the 2008 Lafite almost tripled in a few days after the wine was rated 98-100 points by Parker – the wine had not changed but the score caused demand to sore … but the wine was in the end also rated 98 points.

Robert Parker once said that a 100-point wine is based 90% on the tasting quality of the wine and 10% on pure emotion. So a perfect score is not about an objective measure, instead, it is a subjective decision by the taster.

You keep asking me what my 100 point wines are in the comments but I haven’t rated many wines 100 points. One of the most memorable ones on the channel was the 1863 Burmester Colheita I tasted. But I have 4 wines here that received a perfect 100-point score on Robert Parker.com – So let’s find out whether I also feel pure emotion and give out 100 points to one of these beauties …

when Robert parer developed his point scale 100 points were only reserved for a few wines wines that were better than extraordinary wines that represented perfection in the Heyday of Robert Parker’s influence a 100 Point score could either bring an unknown producer into the spotlight or raise the demand for a well-known wine into the stratosphere I want to share this nice little Story by the wine writer Mark Squire from the beginning of the Parker era that highlights his influence he wanted to buy some of the 1985 Groth reserve and called up the wine maker and this is what happened the somewhat exasperated reply was that it had been just released and was already sold out huh he said you haven’t heard I wondered what it was I was supposed to have heard evidently some guy named Robert Parker had just given it the first 100 Point score ever for California wine it vanished in an eye blink leaving Groth besieged with eag collectors I remember well that when I worked with fine wine in London the price for the 2008 lefit almost tripled within a few days after royalt Parker released his 98 to 100 Point score the wine hadn’t changed a bit it was just his score that caused demand to sore you keep asking me in the comments for my 100 Point wines the truth is there aren’t so many one of them is the 1863 burm coleta that I’ve tasted on this channel but today I have four wines that were rated 100 points by robertp parker.com so let’s see whether I’ll find perfection in one of those bottles let’s [Music] go before we get into the wines let me first thank the sponsor of this video Babble I travel to many countries and wine making regions all around the world and being able to speak the languages is key in order to get as much information as possible out of the people you meet Babble is one of the top language learning apps in the world and this is why I used Babble to learn Spanish before my trip to Rea de duero in Spain a few weeks ago the app is easy to use super intuitive and I 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winery was built in 1904 by Kaiser willham II this was the time when mosul wine was the rage everyone wanted some mosul wine and the wines retailed for more than the best wines from Bordeaux burgundy and champagne this obviously changed after the beginning of the 20th century when German producers were more focused on producing quantity rather than quality nowadays there’s again some really great wine coming out of the mosul and the prices are still kind of affordable the wine B was purchased by Marcus molo one of the most famous producers in the region he refurbished it and now they are focused on recing producing two different styles of reing the wine is sold through La plasta Bordeaux which is the distribution system in Bordeaux and it’s mainly used for really high-end wines so let’s find out whether this is really high-end the fogang vigard is a very steep slope The Vines grow on reddish slate and the grapes are pressed in a basket press to allow for a little bit of mation the wine is then aged in 3,000 lit stockinger barrels for 10 months and it’s then aged for another 2 years in bottle so it’s released roughly 3 years after the Harvest the aqual level is at 12 ABV which is pretty low even for the wines from the mosul where alcohol levels get higher and higher for dry reings at least so this is dry by 12% suggesting that it wasn’t harvested too late the Norse is is quite beautiful I mean it has Aromas of ripe apples a little bit of peach as well a little bit of Tangerine flavor coming through too so it’s quite complex and quite beautiful there’s this you know sometimes feels like you can smell the acid not volatile acidity but you can feel the freshness and you certainly get that here in the glass it smells really really fresh and vibrant on the palette there’s lots of concentration intensity the acidity is actually not so high I mean for mosal wine it actually feels quite round and Rich even though the alcohol isn’t High either but yeah there’s a lot of concentration and density and richness there you know the length is very long and it’s really intense but for me I mean this is an amazing wine but in order to get to 100 points I would need a little bit more freshness and vibrancy on the pallet just to keep it like alive I think there is a tiny lack of acidity there in my opinion you know this is a delicious excellent one and it sounds a little picky of me to say well this isn’t quite perfect but yeah it isn’t perfect for me I would rate this 97 points I think it’s extraordinary but it’s not quite quite there there’s this X Factor missing in the one that would get me to score it 100 points Robble p one said that a 100 Point score is based 90% on the tasting quality of the wine and 10% on pure emotions so it’s not an objective measure instead it’s a subjective decision by the taster but it’s still a very good one so the next one is the 2010 gigal exvoto amage blond white amage and this wine was also rated 100 points by Jeb dun when he was still working for Robert Parker and he wrote the utterly perfect 2010 Armitage exoto blun is As Good As It Gets In Armitage BL so yeah let’s let’s find out whether that’s true the gigy winery was founded in 1946 and Marcel gigy took over in 1961 when his father suddenly turned blind and well they built an amazing Winery out of those humble beginnings they now own several different Vineyards and win and they produce some of the best wines coming out of the ran amage is the vineyard of the northern R it can either be spelled with an h e or an e at the beginning but it’s the same place and it produces some amazing wines the whites are a little bit more exotic you don’t see them as often but they can be absolutely delicious they have to be made from rousan and or masan and they can age really well and they’re deliciously rich and concentrated you the fruit for the exvoto aage comes from different plots lit and Li and the wine is only made in special vintages and it’s a blend of 90% Maran and 10% rousan the wine is fermented and aged for 30 months in 100% new French Oak and it goes through malolactic conversion you know white amage just like white shunu pup is often a bit underrated it can be a little bit funky and wild but those ones can be super interesting and you pay a little bit less even though yeah well it’s it’s all relative I mean this bottle isn’t cheap by any means but yeah it’s it’s it’s definitely an experience should be let’s let’s find out whether it is whoa that’s a long cork he catches and he shoots and he scores what let’s focus on the one oh my God I mean check out this color color it’s golden this is this is really dark it’s almost like an orange wine in color wow this is big but but beautiful I mean wow it smells of honey chamomile Vera there’s also a little bit of um green apple bruised Apple character coming through so there’s definitely also quite a bit of fruit there on the palette it’s luscious rich and concentrated there’s obviously some alcohol there but it’s 13 and 1 12 so it’s not a crazy amount of alcohol the acidity is actually fairly low but it’s still there there’s there’s freshness as well so it’s like a rich and unctuous dense and concentrated wine the beauty here is also that it has seen some bottle aging so it’s now 14 years old which kind of allowed this wine to mature and become a little bit more integrated and harmonious check out this color I mean this is so golden it looks like sweet wine really and the palette there’s this touch of toffee great wine really good wine I think I would want to drink this a little bit cooler this is maybe at 15 16° now would shill it down a little bit more to get it to 12° maybe in order to manage the alcohol a little bit more and bring out a little bit more freshness there but this is good I’m not quite there though I’m going to rate this 9 99 points so it’s it’s close it’s delicious absolutely delicious but yeah not quite so let’s go to Australia with the 2016 tour break run rck from Barosa Valley and Joe chinsky wrote a blend of 98% shiras and 2% vion made just prior to bottling the 2016 run rig is a complete Masterpiece and he rated it 100 points for Robert parker.com Toc Winery is still regarded as one of the best in Australia and this Bland of shiras and viun is actually quite traditional in the northern rone so it kind of adds a little bit of flavor fruitiness Elegance to the wine and it can also stabilize the color so that you get a darker color even though you at the white grape variety viun the wine was aged for 30 months in 50 % new French Oak barrels so this will be a big concentrated and Rich and maybe even slightly oy wine but yeah let’s let’s taste it first you know those big concentrated Australian Shir wrasses are not necessarily modern anymore but I still like them and I don’t drink them a lot but if I do I usually enjoy them obviously they also need to be in Balance so just power is not good enough you need to have power paired with some Elegance freshness another dimension wo this is not seethrough it’s dark very dark this is a big big wine I mean it’s this is big very big so it smells of blackberry or blueberry jam it’s quite Rich there’s also a little bit of olive tapenade some dark chocolate flavors coming through as well so it’s just really concentrated really rich rich rich on the palette again there’s just so much there I mean it’s so powerful the tants are ripe and round the alcohol is high you can definitely feel it even though the wine is cool here it just kind of you can feel it so you shouldn’t drink this at room temperature you should put it in the fridge before you serve it in order to make sure that it doesn’t become too alcoholic because some point this just yeah this is a bit too much you know I struggle a bit with this wine it’s just a little bit too much I mean like I said in the beginning if the wine is Big it also needs to be balanced somehow and this is just big just really really fullon super concentrated and yeah I I don’t I don’t see Perfection here it could also be that the shiras goes through a phase that isn’t really kind of allowing it to express itself fully but yeah I don’t I I think it’s just not it’s not not not close to 100 points that’s said I mean it’s a Barosa Valley Shas so it has to be rich and concentrated but yeah I don’t I just don’t think it’s a it’s a perfect one I’m going to rate this 95 points I think it’s delicious it’s a great bottle of wine but yeah it just lacks it lacks balance so last but not least we have the 20 4 V tondonia Winery that was featured a few times already on this channel Grand Reserva and Luis gutterz wrote for RO Parker that the 2004 Vina Tonia Grand Reserva didn’t stop growing and changing in the class for the good 3 hours that lasted the tasting of the portfolio so yeah um I don’t know whether I have three hours here but but I hope this this will kind of match my expectations because this is a great Winery and and it’s 20 years old so it should be in its drinking window well actually looking back on the tasting note it’s barely in its drinking window Luis guz writes that the drinking dates should be between 2024 and 2044 so we just we’re at the beginning of the drinking window here so this Ultra traditionalist Winery was founded in 1877 this was kind of the time when bordeau really suffered under Phil and the north of Spain became quite popular for sourcing wines to meet demand in France while the French wineries weren’t really able to produce wine and this has the reputation of being still very very traditional however this is not a small Winery I mean the vinat Tona vignat is more than 100 hectar big so so quite big but but that also means that that it’s widely available which which is nice and even though the winery has such a high reputation the wines are still affordable I mean like especially the entry level wines they they’re pretty pretty cheap for what they are the soil of the vineyard is aluvial clay with quite a lot of limestone in it and they apparently produce 24,000 bottles of this wine it’s a blend of tempano gacha matuo and Gano and the wine is aged in well seasoned American Oak that’s what they say so the wine was aged for 10 years in barrel and then another 10 years in Bottle which kind of makes this the most recent release of the winery the the 2004 vintage the 2004 vintage by the way was rated as outstanding so rioka made quite a lot of good wine here and now let’s taste this oh I forgot now let’s taste this so yeah the color is very different to the shiras way less intense way less dark but this also goes to show that I mean color is not really an indicator of quality both wines are very good wines one is very light the other one is very dark so that’s more a question of style or character of the great variety but this is serious wine delicious so it smells of cherries there’s a little bit of herbs herbal flavor coming through as well the Yol is definitely not very obvious there’s just a little bit of smokiness there black tea it’s yeah there’s always almost this mintiness there as well on the palette it’s rich and concentrated the tants are ripe and Polished the acidity is also just there the alcohol is around 30 133% so it’s not super alcoholic at all it’s really balanced fresh Lively great stuff it does changed quite a bit in the glass I just picked it up and all of a sudden it had this mushroomy character coming out more pronounced this is this is just a beautiful beautiful wine and those grand reservers they often can be a little bit too Oaky too oxidative and this just isn’t that it’s it’s it is oxid dative but not too much there’s also still bright fruit character coming through so this is super complex and very very precise okay okay I’m going to I’m going to match robertp parker.com here I think this is beautiful this is a wine as good as you can make it especially this is as representative of the region and the style of the house as it can be it’s very complex very balanced very long very intense without being too concentrated so there everything is just there so here you go 100 points I mean when it comes to 100 Point wines this is also still kind of Fairly affordable delicious stuff all right that’s it water tasting 100 points per bottle 400 points in total I mean by me but but it was close I mean those were all delicious wines absolutely outstanding examples of their types and those two were just my favorites the exvoto and the Via tondonia both shown not necessarily because they were the fru or whatever the most beautiful wines they were just kind of the purest most balanced most special wines making me feel kind of special being able to open those bottles but that said the other two were also beautiful I think especially the serc if it is 10 years old it’s probably going to be even more beautiful than it is now but yeah great wies what an experience and I hope you enjoyed this experience too so thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this video because I certainly did if you did then please like it down here subscribe to my channel if you haven’t done so already my question of the day is what is your 100 point wine let me know down below I hope I see you guys again very soon until then stay stay thirsty [Music]